Emma Pooley won the Montreal round of the International Women's World Cup. Photograph: Axel Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images

Britain's Olympic silver-medallist Emma Pooley has won the Montreal round of the Union Cycliste Internationale Women's World Cup.

The Cervélo Test Team rider, who came second in the time-trial in the Beijing Games last summer, made a lone attack on the first lap of the 10km circuit in the Canadian race and pulled away from her rivals.

Pooley came home one minute and 14 seconds ahead of a small chase group headed by Emma Johansson of Sweden. Johansson's second place in Montreal has put her back in the lead of the season-long world cup series with Pooley's win leaving her eighth in the table.

Pooley's Team GB team-mate Nicole Cooke (Vision 1) did not compete in the Canadian round and is in 11th place in the table.